Nish Kumar
British stand-up comedian and presenter
Worryingly close to absolute panic.
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?
Craft & work
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What is the best advice you have ever received?
Time & hindsight
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
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Breathlessness.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗
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Very warm and slightly giddying
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Friendly and warm.
Very complicated.
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Getting the job is the work. Playing the character, you’d do it for nothing. It’s fun.
I paid $84,000 in 1988 for a Porsche 928S.
To never, never, never give up.
I spent years trying to work out the secret of acting. I read all the books by the great teachers and got nowhere. They were so busy making it sound complex. I just couldn’t figure it out. Then one day my acting coach in LA told me to ‘think before you act’. It was so simple – when you are acting don’t just speak the words, but concentrate and think about what you are going to say all the time. It worked for me.
My tendency to be inappropriate.
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